Why Dial 10-10-321? 10-10-321 can save you money.... and so on Call 1-800-COLLECT and save a buck or two! 10-10-220 - it's just 7 cents after 20 minutes (Newman's ads) There's a whole slew of others, not to mention all the different pre-paid calling cards, each with a different procedure for placing a call. How is adding .new.net to the end of a domain name any different from pre-pending 10-10-220 to a phone number? if you sign up with AT&T, the 10-10-220 becomes transparent, just as if you install the new.net plugin. I don't see any end in sight to the 10-10-xxx services, or the calling card companies, and there's no end to the spam - on and off line - about making easy money in an all-cash business selling phone cards. I don't think these outfits have customers leaving in droves. Long distance is highly competitive, despite a boggling array of different ways to place a call. Shawn McMahon
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 12:33:07AM -0800, Scott Francis wrote:
yes, and multiple directory services are a great thing.
However, when I dial
+1.310.642.0351 it reaches the same number no matter where the call originates, in what phone network, who my LD carrier is, who my local telco is, or how many switches it passes through on the way.
On my phone I get an error if I dial that.
I have to dial something else first to tell it that I'm looking for a number that's not on my local phone network, but instead on the one Bellsouth participates in.